Walk down the street in New York City after a particularly rough thunderstorm, and you’ll see dozens of beaten, broken umbrellas stuffed into trash cans. These $5 drug store umbrellas all suffered the ...

The design of the steel-ribbed umbrella has changed little since it was introduced in the 1850s, but the mechanical engineers and origami experts who made an umbrella that works by folding say they’ve ...

Struggling with an umbrella that has blown inside out in the wind is enough to dampen anyone's spirit. A newly-designed umbrella based on origami, however, could make it less of a struggle. The Sa ...

Everyone hates the sheer agony of an umbrella flipping inside out in a windy rainstorm. Even with the best umbrellas, this happens all too often. Justin Nagelberg feels your pain. His new umbrella, ...